Disabling the IDE port on a SB32 PNP.

Does anyone know how to disable the IDE port on a SoundBlaster 32 PNP? I have checked all the utilities and tech support does not write me back! I am getting the yellow ! in the device manager in Win95. This did not occur until I installed Bus Mastering Drivers.

MOST OF PnP Cards with eprom will have utility that will write to eprom all pnp info about card you will have to look for them buy updating eprom an teling that there is no ide controler also did you try to remove ide controler on sb in win95

JBurghardt: I cannot find a utility for the eprom. Do you know where it would be?

busuka: Win95 keeps finding it. I unchecked the Original Configuration but then I get a red x by the Primary Busmaster IDE Controller. Had to delete them all and reboot. Back to square 1 with the yellow ! by Creative Labs IDE Controller.

OK, let me explain what happened:
- you have SB card inside and installed busmaster drivers
- installation went fine (???)
usually majority of people here got 'protection error' upon
reboot. This is caused by SB PnP card incorrectly assign
resources and lead to conflict with busmaster drivers.

Now, here is lot of work to do.
- Enter Device Manager and remove SB card COMPLETELY. There should
not be trace of sound card.
- shut down computer
- open case and pull out SB card
- boot Win95 in Safe Mode (press F8 right after 'Starting Win95'
message, select Safe Mode from menu)
- enter Device Manager and remove busmaster drivers, reboot
- boot Win95 and install busmaster drivers again
!!! Now it's imperative that you have no conflicts after install
busmaster drivers.
- shut down computer, open case and insert SB card back.
- install its drivers.

busuka, followed your instructions and everything was great up to the point where I reinstalled the SB card and rebooted. At this point Win95 found the ide controller again and gave me a red x by both the SB ide controller and the Primary bus master IDE controller.

At this point, I removed bus mastering drivers from the device manager and unchecked the Original Configuration box for the SB controller and rebooted. I reinstalled the BM drivers and SB controller. This time I have a red x by the SB Controller indicating that the device is disabled. Is this the next best thing to not being there at all?

If so, thanks for your help. If this is not the solution, any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Strange, this worked for me. OK. Enter Device Manager once again,
select SB controller (conflict one), enter its properties and
click on Resources tab. What resources are used ? You can also
click on topmost icon in tree (Computer), click on properties.
Then check in every category (IRQ, DMA, I/O address, etc) if you
have SB controller's resource common in some other.

Hmm, I'm afraid that only option is to remove BM drivers and let
Win95 install standard ones (Standard IDE/ESDI controller). Do you
maintain file server, so you need BM drivers ? Second not all
motherboards support BM, many of them need BM drivers ONLY from
manufacturer. If you can't detect manufacturer, you can do it by
BIOS number. Check this page for details: http://www.ping.be/bios/
Here numbers for AWARD and AMI BIOSes.

I have a SuperMicro P5STE. I was thinking about removing the BM drivers anyway. I just need to find out how. I am using Intel drivers (2.85). Do you know how to get Win95 to install the Standard controller again?

The question is: "Does anyone know how to disable the IDE port on a SoundBlaster 32 PNP?"

I too would like to disable the IDE controller on a SoundBlaster 32 PnP. So when I saw the statement "There is an answer to this question:" I registered, and for ten points bought entry.

Unfortunately, although answers were given regarding various ways of having Windows95 ignore the drivers, there is no answer here for the real question.

In my situation, Windows95 adds a "Creative Labs IDE controller" entry under the "Hard disk controller" device type. It uses the same IRQ and I\O as Tyjacs'. There are no conflicts, as nothing else is currently requesting those settings. But I sometimes put a Matrox video card in that system that uses IRQ 10. Because of that, and other reasons, I would like to "disable the IDE port on a SoundBlaster 32 PNP."

I will continue to seek the answer to the question of whether it is possible to disable the SB32 PnP controller, and if so, how it's done. I will report back here with the answer, unless someone beats me to it.

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